Country: USA
Year: 2003
Duration: 8
"This piece has the feeling of an illicit declaration - a
force field of affection. These intimacies risk the rapids, steel and flesh
disassemble into currents of visible electricity received through the air. Light
set to frappe, set to tremolo. Coupling. This light frisks and beans and bodies
in motion fall with incredible force making the torrents mist and sealing
attachment" (M. McE).
Biography
film director
Pierce Leighton
Leighton Pierce has made over 30 impressionistic-experimental short films that explore the outer limits of memory and perception, and reflect on the construction of space and time in films. Many of his works center on a detached and objective vision of small domestic events. Pierce has also studied music, has worked as a ceramist and sculptor, and was a professor at the University of Iowa. His two most recent films, Glass and 50 Feet of String, have won prizes at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and at Black Maria, Athens, Atlanta. His works have been projected and have received prizes at Edinburgh, New York, Hong Kong and at the European Media Arts Festival. Retrospectives of his work have been organized at the MOMA, at the Pacific Film Archive in Chicago and at the San Francisco Cinematheque.
FILMOGRAFIA
He Likes To Chop Down Trees (cm, 1980), He Said Without Moving (cm,, 1981) Not Much Time (cm, 1982), And Sometimes the Boats Are Low (cm, 1983), The Miracle of Change (cm, 1984), These Are the Directions I Give to a Stranger (cm, 1984), Red Swing (cm, 1986), What's Left Is Wind (cm, 1988), You Can Drive the Big Rigs (cm, 1989), Thursday (cm, 1991), Principles of Harmonic Motion (cm, 1991), Red Shovel (cm,1992), Blue Hat (cm, 1993), 50 Feet of String (mm.,1995), Memories of Water (cm, 1997), Glass (cm, 1998), On the Road Going Through and You Can Drive the Big Rigs (cm,1987-1989), Breathe In; Breathe Out (cm, 1980-1991), A Private Happiness (cm, 2003)
Cast
& Credits
Regia/Director:
Leighton Pierce.